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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Supersymmetry in doubt

About a dozen of years ago, at a Great Lakes Conference dinner at Northwestern I asked Witten what parts of high energy physics he thinks will be confirmed experimentally in our lifetime. Super-symmetry was one of the first things he mentioned. Now comes this news from the Large Hadron Collider casting some doubt on the supersymmetry premise.